I find that Bryce works best when run alone. I think it utilizes 100% of available memory and doesn't like to share. :^) I usually watch TV while rendering. About the only program I run at the same time is Poser, and it tends to flake out sometimes.

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy